Russian Women Strike for Equal Rights
The March 5 strike is already in its second year and is organized by two organizations: the SotsFem Alternative socialist feminist group and Socialist Alternative, …
Olga Grushin’s ‘The Charmed Wife’ Breaks Literary Conventions
“The Charmed Wife,” Olga Grushin’s fourth novel, is not easy to categorize. It isn’t a fantasy, although certainly much of it is fantastical. It isn’t …
Revealing Meghan and Harry interview shakes UK royal family
Britain’s royal family was absorbing the tremors Monday from a sensational television interview by Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex, in which the couple …
Senegal braces for 3 more days of protests as crisis deepens
Supporters of jailed Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko have called for three more days of protests starting Monday following violent demonstrations last week that threatened …
Half of Russian Men Believe Women ‘Better Off’ Not Working
About half of Russian men believe that women are better off not working while only 22% of women feel the same, according to an Otkritie …
Russia’s Deadly Negligence of Domestic Violence
In late February of this year, Russia’s criminal investigative agency announced that it had referred to a court an investigation into criminal negligence by two …
Of Borscht and Protests: The Female Future of Russia’s Opposition
When Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was arrested upon his January return to Russia, his supporters and enemies alike turned their attention toward his wife Yulia …
Russia’s First Female Train Driver Gets Behind the Wheel
Nearly every weekday, Yelena Lysenko-Saltykova puts on her navy blue uniform and gets in the driving carriage of an electric commuter train to ferry passengers …
Ksyusha’s story — at the age of 5 she was accidentally diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer
A resident of Novosibirsk was found to have a kidney tumor at the age of six. We learned the story of Ksyusha Proskuryakova thanks to …
How people are reacting to Meghan and Harry’s interview with Oprah
What’s a good made-for-TV moment if it doesn’t get the people talking? And talk they have, as Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and Oprah Winfrey sat …
She rejected him healthy and fell in love without legs
28-year-old Ufa resident Rustam Nabiev lost his legs five and a half years ago. The four-story barracks in Omsk, where he arrived to serve on …
Sharp impressions of a Siberian who parted with myopia -25
The journalist gave up myopia at -25 and put on artificial lenses. Operation on the first eye took place in Kemerovo: evening view of the …